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The Green Beauty Conversations podcast brings the world of green beauty to your earbuds. Join Gemma and Lorraine from the Formula Botanica Team as they demystify confusing topics on ingredients, formulations, business practices and political issues in the beauty world.
Hear directly from established brands in the green beauty sector and engage with a variety of experts who willingly share their knowledge with you.
Formula Botanica is the accredited online organic cosmetic science school, hosting thousands of students in 125+ countries who have enrolled for their award-winning online formulation courses. The school has long been a hub for artisan skincare entrepreneurs, who form part of their large, engaged global online community.
The global green beauty community looks to Formula Botanica for guidance on major events in the industry, such as new ingredient releases, innovative formulation techniques and indie business guidance. Formula Botanica is at the forefront of the global green beauty industry and is committed to bringing you the best and most up-to-date information from the green beauty world.
Listen to the Green Beauty Conversations podcast and become part of the global green beauty movement.Read more »

The Green Beauty Conversations podcast brings the world of green beauty to your earbuds. Join Gemma and Lorraine from the Formula Botanica Team as they demystify confusing topics on ingredients, formulations, business practices and political issues in the beauty world.
Hear directly from established brands in the green beauty sector and engage with a variety of experts who willingly share their knowledge with you.
Formula Botanica is the accredited online organic cosmetic science school, hosting thousands of students in 125+ countries who have enrolled for their award-winning online formulation courses. The school has long been a hub for artisan skincare entrepreneurs, who form part of their large, engaged global online community.
The global green beauty community looks to Formula Botanica for guidance on major events in the industry, such as new ingredient releases, innovative formulation techniques and indie business guidance. Formula Botanica is at the forefront of the global green beauty industry and is committed to bringing you the best and most up-to-date information from the green beauty world.
Listen to the Green Beauty Conversations podcast and become part of the global green beauty movement.Read Less

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EP22. Defining Green Cosmetic Chemistry in Easy Steps

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Isn't green chemistry always at work in our artisan labs when we're formulating natural organic skincare? Our answer would be, yes it is, but probably not to the extent it could be, nor in line with how we would define green cosmetic chemistry.

Believe us when we say we're not trying to make your formulating lives harder! However, take a moment to think about how consumers are increasingly asking penetrating questions about the green credentials of skincare brands, both large and small. You'll realise that the artisan formulator with business aspirations needs to work to green chemistry principles to survive in today's ever more sophisticated green beauty market.

To truly adhere to green chemistry, you need to go way beyond what is in the pot and think about the whole life cycle of your products. This includes knowing how they are harvested in field and forest to how they are finally flushed down the drain at the end of their lives.

In this episode, Formula Botanica Director Lorraine Dallmeier, who is a biologist and environmental scientist, opens our eyes to the gamut of issues we need to be aware of and start to address in our efforts to formulate to green cosmetic chemistry principles. As Lorraine says, "No one ever said it would be easy being a green formulator". But by listening in to this podcast, you'll discover that what seems an overwhelming agenda of measures can be tackled in increments, as and when you can. Awareness is the first step on the green chemistry road.

In this episode, you'll find out about:

The definition of green cosmetic chemistry and how it breaks down into manageable areas to tackle in your own formulating careers;

Why prevention is better than cure and how you can do this by devising formulae that reduce your carbon footprint from the start;

How even natural botanical ingredients can be hazardous to plant and animal life;

Why including fewer ingredients and choosing local ingredients is one easy, first step to adhering to green cosmetic chemistry principles;

Why you need to think about the total life cycle of your products and think about how they wash off and out into the eco-system;

and why you need to help customers dispose easily and safely of wasted product and packaging.

During the podcast, host Gemma mentions some of our related blog posts and episodes which are ideal further reading, listening and references on green issues in natural organic skincare formulating. Take a look at the links below:

Work on building excellent relations with your suppliers so you can find out as much as you can about the provenance of your ingredients, including whether they are harvested, produced and delivered sustainably and ethically.

Design for degradation! By this we mean working out how your product will degrade and be disposed of. Green cosmetic chemists don't focus only on how it will perform its skincare function but take a holistic look at its impact on the environment and human health and well being.

Remember, that even so-called natural and organic ingredients can cause eco toxicity and be harmful to the plant.

Learn more about how your chosen ingredients are produced and try to discover if any undesirable bi-products are either used in their processing and extraction or created as a result of their production. The fact that the ingredient doesn't contain harmful substances doesn't mean it hasn't caused them.

Listen, Download and Subscribe to Green Beauty Conversations

Thank you for joining us for this episode of the Formula Botanica: Green Beauty Conversations podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please share, subscribe and review on iTunes or Stitcher so that more people can enjoy the show. Don’t forget to follow and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Isn't green chemistry always at work in our artisan labs when we're formulating natural organic skincare? Our answer would be, yes it is, but probably not to the extent it could be, nor in line with how we would define green cosmetic chemistry.

Believe us when we say we're not trying to make your formulating lives harder! However, take a moment to think about how consumers are increasingly asking penetrating questions about the green credentials of skincare brands, both large and small. You'll realise that the artisan formulator with business aspirations needs to work to green chemistry principles to survive in today's ever more sophisticated green beauty market.

To truly adhere to green chemistry, you need to go way beyond what is in the pot and think about the whole life cycle of your products. This includes knowing how they are harvested in field and forest to how they are finally flushed down the drain at the end of their lives.

In this episode, Formula Botanica Director Lorraine Dallmeier, who is a biologist and environmental scientist, opens our eyes to the gamut of issues we need to be aware of and start to address in our efforts to formulate to green cosmetic chemistry principles. As Lorraine says, "No one ever said it would be easy being a green formulator". But by listening in to this podcast, you'll discover that what seems an overwhelming agenda of measures can be tackled in increments, as and when you can. Awareness is the first step on the green chemistry road.

In this episode, you'll find out about:

The definition of green cosmetic chemistry and how it breaks down into manageable areas to tackle in your own formulating careers;

Why prevention is better than cure and how you can do this by devising formulae that reduce your carbon footprint from the start;

How even natural botanical ingredients can be hazardous to plant and animal life;

Why including fewer ingredients and choosing local ingredients is one easy, first step to adhering to green cosmetic chemistry principles;

Why you need to think about the total life cycle of your products and think about how they wash off and out into the eco-system;

and why you need to help customers dispose easily and safely of wasted product and packaging.

During the podcast, host Gemma mentions some of our related blog posts and episodes which are ideal further reading, listening and references on green issues in natural organic skincare formulating. Take a look at the links below:

Work on building excellent relations with your suppliers so you can find out as much as you can about the provenance of your ingredients, including whether they are harvested, produced and delivered sustainably and ethically.

Design for degradation! By this we mean working out how your product will degrade and be disposed of. Green cosmetic chemists don't focus only on how it will perform its skincare function but take a holistic look at its impact on the environment and human health and well being.

Remember, that even so-called natural and organic ingredients can cause eco toxicity and be harmful to the plant.

Learn more about how your chosen ingredients are produced and try to discover if any undesirable bi-products are either used in their processing and extraction or created as a result of their production. The fact that the ingredient doesn't contain harmful substances doesn't mean it hasn't caused them.

Listen, Download and Subscribe to Green Beauty Conversations

Thank you for joining us for this episode of the Formula Botanica: Green Beauty Conversations podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please share, subscribe and review on iTunes or Stitcher so that more people can enjoy the show. Don’t forget to follow and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.